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- Marie saves Stein with her GLOWING MAGIC BOOBY LOVE HAX. This was so cliche and sappy. Let's face it, Stein doesn't understand love and warmhappyfeelings. He also had pretty much everything he wanted with Medusa and her new world. I can't see it as realistic that Marie would have swayed him to go back to hiding his true self and living in misery so easily.

- Oh, why hello there Demon Hunter haxor. The heck? Suddenly the Demon Hunter can knock a witch out of a body without harming the body? Did anything like this happen in the manga? I feel like it was just a really cheap way of killing off Medusa. It felt like she was defeated too easily.

I wish that Bones would have grown Medusa up again for all of this. It just didn't have the same feel with her as a broadsword wielding loli. It would have been perfect if she'd left as a kid to go meet Stein and then, upon stepping up to meet him as he joined her, was revealed as an adult again. Needed more Adult!Medy Stein moments. Now there's just tons of horrible art of Loli!Medy x Stein. Ew.

As for the episode itself, it was definitely a good conclusion to the fight.

Marie's "booby hax" was actually her unique ability to dispel insanity, it's been mentioned several times in the past and works on anyone, regardless of how unemotional they are.

I was hoping for a bit more violent of a death for Medusa after all she'd done (her fight against Stein ended way more gruesomely than this fight.)

I expected Crona to die, but I'll admit that Ragnarok melting away was rather heartwrenching. Hopefully they'll either both come back or both stay dead, since Crona - Ragnarok = lame.

As to the preview, I was excited to see Excalibur return! I knew he'd have a place in the plot somewhere down the line! It also looks like Arachnophobia has some sort of insanity cannon as well, and I'm guessing that Black*Star vs. Mifune won't go without interruption.

As for the episode itself, it was definitely a good conclusion to the fight.

Marie's "booby hax" was actually her unique ability to dispel insanity, it's been mentioned several times in the past and works on anyone, regardless of how unemotional they are.

I was hoping for a bit more violent of a death for Medusa after all she'd done (her fight against Stein ended way more gruesomely than this fight.)

I expected Crona to die, but I'll admit that Ragnarok melting away was rather heartwrenching. Hopefully they'll either both come back or both stay dead, since Crona - Ragnarok = lame.

As to the preview, I was excited to see Excalibur return! I knew he'd have a place in the plot somewhere down the line! It also looks like Arachnophobia has some sort of insanity cannon as well, and I'm guessing that Black*Star vs. Mifune won't go without interruption.

Spoiler for Reply to carcanclaw:

I don't remember it being said that she had a unique ability to dispel insanity. Not in the anime at least. That she had a calming wavelength? Yes. That she could eliminate insanity? No. And if that was the case, and she had this ability all along, why the heck did she leave Stein rolling around on his floor in his lab? Couldn't she have done this from the beginning?

Ugh. So not sharing your elation at the thought of Excalibur being included in this.

They mention that it can cut things without form (insanity particularly), not that it can somehow magically spare little girls who are standing directly in its path. This is definitely something pulled out of nowhere. Note that it also cuts pillars and whatnot, which are presumably not "insane" or "evil" so the idea that innocent things will be spared is nonsense. It would've made more sense to me if Marie somehow did the exorcism (because her power had been vaguely defined until now) and then Maka finished Medusa off. Or perhaps they combined their powers with Chain Resonance in some way.

And yes, Marie's ability was a cop-out. While she is supposed to be calming, being able to calm that much so easily makes one wonder why Stein had any problems at all, ever. Well, it would've made sense if they showed her removing Medusa's snake at some point after Stein left, but they didn't.

On the other hand, I can completely understand why the writers want to get Medusa out of the picture, even though it felt somewhat anticlimactic. She makes things more complicated than they need to be for the final battle with Kisshin that they have only seven more episodes to cover. As villains go, I'd prefer Medusa to be the final boss rather than Arachne since the audience has more emotional investment with her, but Kisshin is clearly the big gun here and they chose to give him to Arachne for whatever reason.

Kay everyone i talked to prior to watching the episode was claiming that Chrona died... but I don't think thats the case here. Almost died... but no i'm certain that if he/she was dead, Maka wouldn't be talking about her mom's postcard at the time. Shame that Ragnarok's gone though.

I agree with most comments on how Medusa went down a little too easily, but given how she looked when she was disappearing away, plus the fact theres still a snake in Marie's body (unless BONES forgot about that somewhere) she might still be alive... after being decapitated twice. Hah.

Im a little disappointed Chrona wasnt the one to take down Medusa in the end though. Even after all that time, Maka had to save his/her arse.

Despite that, still a good episode. I even almost broke into tears when Chrona "died", but my thoughts on the other points still stand.

Kay everyone i talked to prior to watching the episode was claiming that Chrona died... but I don't think thats the case here. Almost died... but no i'm certain that if he/she was dead, Maka wouldn't be talking about her mom's postcard at the time. Shame that Ragnarok's gone though.

Spoiler for Reply to Kotobasuu:

THANK YOU. I couldn't figure this out either. Everyone seemed convinced Chrona died. Um. If he/she died, why is Maka sitting there calmly next to his/her 'body' when it's all over and talking about her postcard with Stein? Wouldn't she be doing a little more mourning now that she has the time to?

We get to see more fighting at least, haven't got much from the last 10 episodes. Now here's the question, Medusa's out of the show already.... What's her purpose of awakening Kishin? Totally unexaplained, or does she just want chaos over the world? Next episode belongs to BlackStar, then i guess next next will be KID! The word courage on the card, probably hidden meaning whenver she's courageous and fighting smart she'll be able to use demon hunter! Which is boring! And pointless..

The Good:
- Marie saves Stein with her GLOWING MAGIC BOOBY LOVE HAX. This was so cliche and sappy. Let's face it, Stein doesn't understand love and warmhappyfeelings. He also had pretty much everything he wanted with Medusa and her new world. I can't see it as realistic that Marie would have swayed him to go back to hiding his true self and living in misery so easily.

Spoiler for did you forget why Marie was assigned to heal Stein in the first place?:

Well, it's been mentioned in the show before, that Marie has a wave pattern for healing, and is suited to sooth one's insanity.
That's the whole reason why Shinigami-sama assigned her to pair with Stein to begin with, remember?
It's just that until recently, Medusa's little snake that Crona put inside of Marie was convieniently getting in the way.

No, they did not pull this out of their ass, it was already hinted in the show itself.

Spoiler for did you forget why Marie was assigned to heal Stein in the first place?:

Well, it's been mentioned in the show before, that Marie has a wave pattern for healing, and is suited to sooth one's insanity.
That's the whole reason why Shinigami-sama assigned her to pair with Stein to begin with, remember?
It's just that until recently, Medusa's little snake that Crona put inside of Marie was convieniently getting in the way.

No, they did not pull this out of their ass, it was already hinted in the show itself.

Spoiler for Reply to aohige:

Again. Calming wavelength? Yes. Magic Insanity Begone ability? No. Even before the snake was in her body she was only slowing the progression of Stein's insanity. This ability was not shown in the manga, it was pulled out of their butts for the anime ending.

Crona is not dead. Stein said so to Maka when they attacked Medusa together. Something along the lines that as long as her soul is safe, everything else will be fine.
I don't really know how to feel about it. On one hand, Crona is my most favorite character, so I'm glad that she will be alive. But if she just died, it would have been much more powerful. And I hate seing her almost completely useless But I did like Maka's reaction. That part was awesome.

As for everything else... Meh. I expected something more. They just... I don't know. They could have included more action, more suspence, and not just "Let us kill Medusa" - "OK" *kills Medusa and has some random dialogue afterwards* I just imagined it to be more powerful. Dunno.

But what absolutely killed me is the part where they have random dialogue before Medusa is killed, and she is just watching them patienly, without making any attempt to attack them...

THANK YOU. I couldn't figure this out either. Everyone seemed convinced Chrona died. Um. If he/she died, why is Maka sitting there calmly next to his/her 'body' when it's all over and talking about her postcard with Stein? Wouldn't she be doing a little more mourning now that she has the time to?

Spoiler for episode + manga spoilers:

Exactly, though now that Ragnarok is gone, assuming Chrona is gonna be alive and well, he/she really is useless now. Ever since after the big Maka/Chrona fight in eps 21-22, we haven't seen Chrona kick butt at all. And even after all that determination, in the end he/she wasn't able to finish off Medusa. Thats kind of a bummer, and now that Chrona doesnt have a weapon, I highly doubt Chrona will be important at all for the remainder of the series, which is disappointing considering how much time the series spending developing his/her character.

And that fact is pretty disappointing if Chrona isn't going to become all that important, because with the series spending so much time developing a side character, the main characters have hardly developed at all. Maka's getting a bit, with her mom being mentioned a lot (i'm expecting an appearance eventually), but Soul doesn't feel like a main character because he's always just standing at the sidelines, and thats depressing especially when the show is named after him. B*S and Tsubaki have gotten a fair bit, but we know close to nothing about Kidd's origins in both the anime and the manga, and i'd still like to know how the sisters ended up on the streets in the first place.

I think the main problem here is that the series introduced new characters without having fleshed out the main ones. I personally don't care for many of the new characters except for Marie and Justin, and imo Kim, Jackie, Killik and Ox probably didn't even have to be animated because they haven't done anything since they first appeared, and theres absolutely no way BONES can fit in the whole arachnophobia brainwashing thing now.

I personally think BONES would've been better off using those 3 excalibur episodes as anime original backstory eps, for example an episode where Soul & Maka met which i think is loooong overdue. I've given up on learning anything about Kidd in the anime with the few amount of eps we have left.

let's just think like this. The anime and manga has a same start line , but they have their own path. For my opinion , it soes seem disappointing based on Chrona's character. But the anime only have 51episodes to live , while the manga is (still) unlimited so they can develop the character without rushing anything. S/he became useless is still better IMO , rther than died.

I'm agree with what happened with Soul's character. Soul may be calm , calmer than B*S , but he's not someone very 'cool' enough only to sit and watch Maka's battle. Soul's character probably is one of the most complex one (I have never seen a character like him before) and so is the development. Especially his sarcastic character.

I have anticipated this ever since Demon Hunter is out for the first time , so I have to admit , this is better than what I have expected.

Well that was interesting. Yeah kind of don't get the cutting the surrounding area into pieces and yet not chopping the kid in half. Oh well better than Rachel having to give up her life for the cause. Oddly it seemed Maka was fine with that early on . While it would have gotten a chuckle to see Maka lined up for her own execution when this was over might as well end it like this. Since I wanted the kid to survive I'm not going to complain much about how they did it.

Chrona not being dead does seem odd. Maybe not the first time in anime that someone bled enough to make a pond and yet survived . Still seems like a bit of a stretch to let Chrona live even if it appears that's what they did. Don't think it would have been bad for Chrona to die saving Maka's life. Probably want to go with more of a happy ending so Chrona has to stick around for that.

Overall managed to fit in enough stuff here. The black blood, Maka giving into rage, the Demon Hunter, and the death of Medusa. Stein being saved like that was also a bit strange. Since it was shown in the series that Marie was only slowing down the insanity before the snake was put in her. They need to spread her around then if she can now completely get rid of the insanity plaguing people.

It's what you expect when they have to try and conclude everything on their own. Some of it is a stretch, but better than nothing. Besides some of the episode was pretty entertaining to watch.

Spoiler for Ep 46 Preview:

I have really low expectations for this one. While it will be Black Star vs Mifune - round 3, there just isn't a great feeling coming into this. They are pretty much at the same point as they were during the last match which was an overwhelming Mifune victory. It's not like Black Star has gotten at all stronger since that time so there isn't much to expect. We'll either get the fight interrupted or Black Star will win in some unsatisfying way.

There really isn't a way to win. Still hasn't dealt with the presence inside Tsubaki so the Fey Blade mode will be at the same level as before. A move that's dangerous to use and won't even work if they try it.

Well, true, Black Star should be at the same level as before, at least at the start of the fight. Whether he will end it that way is another matter. I'm expecting something along the same lines as Maka: unprecedented (save Demon Hunter and Fey Blade respectively) increase in strength/ability. Will hopefully be fun and look good, but other than that I've also not got my hopes up. That said, the manga's recent Black Star thing surprised me, overall, in a good way. So, we'll see...